Christopher Swann > Christopher's Quotes

“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
― George Lucas, The Star Wars Trilogy

“Pirates could happen to anyone.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“First, I'm going to give you all the Copperfield crap, and I'm not going to apologize for any of it, not one paragraph, so if you're not interested in how I came to see the future, or how I came to understand that the biggest truth in my life was a lie, or, for that matter, how I parlayed my distaste for hot dogs into an '84 RX-7 and a new self-concept, do us both a favor, and just stop now.”
― Jonathan Evison, All About Lulu

“He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.”
― Oscar Wilde

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

“The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.”
― Randall Jarrell

“Marjorie Fretwell once sucked a copperhead up in her vacuum cleaner because she didn’t know what to do with it and then she had to throw the whole vacuum away,” Kitty said. “Don’t talk to me about Marjorie Fretwell.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires